For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

You play into their hand when you let them provoke you into overdoing it. Frank never again dated a woman. In 2006 a Fannie Mae representative stated in SEC filings that they "did not participate in large amounts of these non-traditional mortgages in 2004 and 2005.

Born and raised in Bayonne New Jersey Frank graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He was elected to the U. Frank did not seek re-election in 2012 and retired from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013.